History

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The history of communication.

What are we going to do today?

• How did writing come to be and what are the consequences of writing?

• How did communication change through time? 

• The communication of today. 

During communication:

1. you are always the sender yourself
2. information is passed on to someone else
3. You are always talking to someone you don't know
4. You need to say something all the time.

The origin of writing.

The main reason: agricultural production requires an accounting system, this is how writing was developed.

At least four civilizations have independently invented writing.

Mesopetamia (Middle East) around 3400 BC

Egypt around 3250 BC

China around 2000 BC

Central America around 650 BC

The result of writing.

• The author's thinking became clear. This allowed a clearer picture to be drawn from this period.

• Stories could be written down, so stories did not have to be passed on.

Communication in Antiquity

•Heralds carried messages to other realms and poleis (cities).

•The Oracle of Delphi is the communication center of Greece

https://studiegids.universiteitleiden.nl/courses/31920/oud-nieuws-communicatie-en-nieuwsvoorziening-in-de-griekse-oudheid 

Communication in the middleages

 

In the Middle Ages, people mainly communicated through:

•songs,

•poems,

•gestures,

•plays

This was mainly done by the bard

At the end of the Middle Ages

discovery of the printing press.

https://www.frankwatching.com/archive/2012/01/09/social-in-de-middeleeuwen/

Communication from the Middle Ages to the present

• Telegram

• Radio/ television

• Telephone

• Satellites